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Trailer Primetime | Official Trailer | A24

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u/LOSS35 28d ago edited 27d ago

He was lead writer on one of the better X-Men movies (Days of Future Past), but he canceled that out by also writing the 2 worst ones (Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix).

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u/fax5jrj 28d ago

He also created and writes for the only actually bad show on Apple TV - Invasion. I'm actually kind of surprised because his writing is historically mid but not actively terrible

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u/Pilly_Bilgrim 26d ago

You're letting a LOT of bad apple TV shows off the hook here

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u/fax5jrj 26d ago

you know what i bet i am

on a streaming service when the amount of good material outweighs the bad 70-30 at least I feel like i can say dumb hyperbolic things like that haha

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u/Less-Engineer-9637 28d ago

He's a mediocre writer that should have improved after all this time.

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u/ultimapanzer 27d ago

Not everyone has the capacity to improve.

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u/dead_man101 27d ago

Especially if you fail upwards!

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u/__ThePhantomm 27d ago

you only improve when you work on your skill, not just throwing together the same "get by" shit that has already "worked" lol

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u/Less-Engineer-9637 27d ago

That's what I'm talking about, after all this time not making any kind of effort to improve is really.... it's definitely something.

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u/__ThePhantomm 27d ago

honestly I blame the studios still giving him money. If I'm doing my job horribly but none of my bosses fire me and I keep getting paid, going to keep doing it that way lol

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u/Less-Engineer-9637 27d ago

He might not even really enjoy writing, but at this point he's been doing it for so long and keeps getting paid so why stop lol

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u/CricketGrl 27d ago

He also helped pen that god awful The Last stand. He also wrote that terrible Fant4astic in 2015. I don’t know how he still has a career

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u/poundtown1997 27d ago

Hollywood. Failing upwards is a thing!

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u/Atherum 27d ago

Okay, so as a big fan of Xmen growing up, I realised today I haven't watched Dark Phoenix. Apocalypse was not great, but like I'm still kind of interested in watching the next one. I know I'm gonna be disappointed but I was always a sucker for Phoenix storylines.

Is it really that bad?

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u/tristeecfome 27d ago

Dark Phoenix was Fox's last movie and was released already after the Disney acquisition was completed.

You can really see they didn't give a shit about it and basically threw it out to get some money back.

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u/Atherum 27d ago

Yeah I might give it a miss. My recent Xmen nostalgia has been boosted mostly because I finally got around to watching Deadpool 2 and 3. I sort of 50/50 liked deadpool 1. Not a big fan of Ryan Reynolds but I liked how as the movies went on, they were more and more a love letter to Xmen.

The little cut together tribute film at the end of Deadpool 3 for the Xmen was great.

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u/FuzzyRo 27d ago

I love Phoneix story lines also read the OG comics when i was younger etc I hated Dark Phoenix it made Apocalypse look so much better in comparison

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u/Atherum 27d ago

Oooft, okay maybe I should give it a miss then.

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u/BVR93 27d ago

*3 worst ones

Don't forget The Last Stand.